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Louise Penny's first Three Pines novel appeared in Britain as a Headline hardback, ISBN 0755328884 (9780755328888), 288 pages, which Open Library dates 29 September 2005. The American first, a St. Martin's Minotaur hardback, is recorded for July 2006, so the Headline book is the true first edition. Wikipedia's infobox naming a St. Martin's Paperbacks issue as the first is mistaken: that mass market paperback (9780312948559) dates from May 2007. Confirm the hardback ISBN on the copyright page. Later British issues that are not firsts include the Headline paperbacks of 2006 (0755328906, 402 pages) and 2007 (0755345061), the Ulverscroft large print hardback of 2006, the ISIS large print paperback of 2007, and Sphere paperbacks from 2011 onwards.
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Headline Publishing Group, London, in 2005, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 29 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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